We caught up with WWF global soy lead, Jean Franҫois Timmers, to hear if the organization believes the feed sector has made large or small strides towards sustainable sourcing this year and what actions WWF is carrying out in this regard in 2018.
Only 1-2% of global soy production is certified responsible, but RTRS president Marina Engels believes that figure could jump to 10% in five years if demand for credits and produce increases.
The Minnesota-based agribusiness group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire feed additive company Integral Animal Nutrition on Friday. Additional financial details of the deal were not released.
The Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) and other stakeholders have endorsed a manifesto calling for an end to the destruction of forests and native vegetation in the Cerrado region of Brazil.
Using mathematical models rather than nutrient tables may offer producers a way to support pig growth and development with less financial and environmental costs, say researchers.
Cargill and Bunge stress they are focused on ending deforestation in their supply chains, as a report decries continued land clearing in the Brazilian Cerrado and the Bolivian Amazon allegedly linked to the large agribusiness players.
The EU farm lobby wants the EU Commission to impose a temporary ban on Brazilian meat imports, in the wake of the meat scandal in the Latin American country.
A new “cooperation agreement” sees the setting up, for the first time, of a formal working relationship between Brazilian soy producers and key European soy purchasers.
MiXscience , which is the animal nutrition division of the Avril Group, has formed a “strategic alliance” with Brazilian feed additive and premix player, Salus Group, to leverage the continuing growth in the livestock sector in the Latin American powerhouse.
The global outlook for feed prices, which account for 50-70% of poultry production costs, remains bearish, but there is a lot of price variation across markets, finds Rabobank’s poultry quarterly.
The Brazilian soy moratorium, a private sector voluntary agreement, set up in 2006, which has prohibited participants from trading, acquiring or financing soybeans from areas of the Brazilian Amazon biome that were deforested after July 2008, has been...
The Brazilian ministry of the environment has extended the deadline for soy farmers to complete the Rural Environmental Registration (CAR) by one more year.
Dry weather concerns in parts of the US are lending support to winter wheat grain prices, says the UK’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
A new joint venture will see the capacity of an export terminal in the northern Brazilian state of Pará jump from 1.5 million tons of grain annually to 6 million tons in a few years, say partners in the initiative, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Glencore.
EU feed industry body, FEFAC, has welcomed the move by soy players in Brazil to extend the soy moratorium in the Amazon region until May 2016 but says the monitoring mechanism to replace that voluntary pact is robust.
The world's largest ingredients firm Cargill has agreed to discuss
its soy production facilities in Brazil's Amazon basin with
Greenpeace, after a co-ordinated activist attack caused mayhem at
three Cargill International...
